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No. 505,363. Patented Sept. 19, 1893.

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OLE HERMAN JOHANNES KRAG AND ERIK JRGENSEN, OF KONGSBERG, NORWAY.

CARTRIDGE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,363, datedSeptember 19, 1893.

Application filed January 19, 1893. Serial No. 459,024. (No model.)

To all whoml it may concern:

Be it known that we, OLE HERMAN J o- HANNEs KRAG. and ERIK JRGENsEN,subjects of the King of Sweden and Norway, and residents of Kongsberg,in the Province of Kongsberg and Kingdom of Norway, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge Holders or Cases; andwe do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- actdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention relates to cartridge holders or cases, and it has for itsobject to simplify and cheapen their construction without therebyimpairing their strength and durability.

Our invention consists essentially in the construction of the cartridgecase or holder, as will now be fully described, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of acartridge case embodying our invention said View illustrating the casepartially open. Figs. 2 and 3 are opposite side elevations. Figs. 4

and 5 are plan views of the two sections thereof, and Figs. 6 and 7 arelike views of the blanks from which such case is made. Fig. 8 is aperspective view of a cartridge case embodying the principle of ourinvention and differing but slightly from that shown in Fig. 1, andFigs. 9 and 10 are views of the blanks from which the said case is made.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 7, the case, C, is made of sheet metal in twosections adapted to slide one onto the other and of such form anddimensions as to accommodate a given number of cartridges and hold themtherein against rattling or displacement, that portion of the case inwhich the bullet end of the cartridge lies being made narrower than theportion of the case in which the butt or shell end of said cartridgelies, as shown. The section c, is struck up from a blank 1 ofsubstantially the shape shown, the opposite ends of said blank beingbent at right angles along the dotted lines 3, 4, to form the end walls,2, 6, which walls are provided with a lip that is bent inwardly alongthe dotted line lO, 1l, to form retaining anges 7,8. The blank along oneside of the case is bent upwardly, as shown at 9 Fig. 1, to form oneside wall, but does not quite close the side of the case when the twosections are assembled. The other section, c, of the case is ofsubstantially the same construction as section c, except that it isdevoid of the retaining anges, 7, 8, and that the upwardly bent edge, 9does not coincide with the like edge on section, c, when the parts areunited, that is to say, the bent portion, 9, is on one side of the case,and that 9 on the opposite side, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 to 5. Inother words, the side or lateral edge 9 of section c is bent upwardlytoward or to the corresponding straight edge of section c', while thebent side or lateral edge 9 of section c is similarly bent upwardly ortoward or to the corresponding staight edge of section c, so that bysliding the sections apart sufficiently to admit of the passage of acartridge out of the case laterally, said case may be emptied fromeither side. The blank, 1 from which section, c', is made as shown inFig. 7, 3', 4', indicating the lines on which the metal is bent to formthe end walls, 2', 6.

It will be seen that the opening and closing of the case are much morereadily and more rapidly effected than with the cartridge cases of usualconstruction, as this can be done by placing the case between the thumband lingers and moving them in opposite directions. In order to preventthe iingers from slipping we roughen both outer faces of the sections byproviding the same with several rows of protuberances, 14, and aprojecting corrugation or rib, 15, on opposite sides thereof, this beingdone by stamping in a well-known manner.

In Figs. 8, 9 and 10, we have shown a slight modification, in thatsection, c, of the case has no bent edge, 9, or 9', the blank, 12, beingbent on the lines, 32, 42, 102, 112, to form the end walls, 22 and 62,and the retaining iianges, 72, 82. The section, c', Fig. 10, on theother hand, has besides, end Walls 23 and 63, a side wall 12, thatcloses the case on one side, its opposite side wall, 92, being bentupwardly to close said side of the case.

The case shown in Fig.8 can be manipulated with the same facility asthat shown in Figs. l to 5, but of course the cartridges can not bedelivered from either side thereof, since the side wall, 12, closes thesaid case on one side.

We have stated that the cartridge case is made of sheet metal iu orderto give it the necessary strength to withstand the wear to which it maybe subjected when said case is employed to supply ammunition to armies,and in order to insure greater lightness, we prefer to construct thecase of aluminium.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A cartridge case composed of two sections adapted to slide into oronto eachother, the lateral edge of one of the sections curving towardthe corresponding straight edge of the other section, said curved edgeperforming the function of side wall to the case and of guide to thecartridges in emptying said case.

2. A cartridge case composed of two sections adapted to slide into oronto each other, each section having a re-curved and a straight lateraledge, said re-curved edge of the two sections constituting the sidewalls of the case and acting as a guide to the cartridges when removedfrom one or the other side of said case.

3. A cartridge case composed of two sections, c, c', adapted to slideone into or onto the other, said sections made of sheet metal havingaportion of theirouter faces roughened and provided with finger abutmentson opposite sides of said roughened portion, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twowitnesses.

OLE HERMAN JOHANNES KRAG. ERIK JRGENSEN. Witnesses:

ANTON RosMAYER, MARTIN NELsEN.

